Oh wait yea sorry the kings will be in seattle to play as the sonics. The funny thing is you think your funny and you think your keeping your team but seattle will have the last laugh. Remember Binding agreement to buy the team.

Sure are a lot of mixed signals with this. Brock and Kevin Calabro make it sound like game over. Then there are those who say Hansen is going to take a hard line. Just 7 more days before relocation is voted down or not. The Sacbee article about the NBA suggesting the Sac Group put 100% of their offer into escrow makes it sound like the NBA knows that the Maloofs would take the back-up deal via some type of communication.

The Sacbee is thinking the backup offer could be accepted by the Maloofs and the NBA very soon after rejecting the Hansen purchase. With the amount of speculation flowing around, I am not sure what Hansen and company would do if the purchase is rejected. Earlier posts here made it seem that the key was the Maloofs holding strong with Hansen. The NBA's actions seem pretty strong toward a quick turnaround purchase occurring for the Sac Group.

Remember, it's always the party with the weakest position that makes the most noise. The NBA knew it had no way to stop the sale and that's why they've done everything they can to scare off Hansen. But he hasn't been scared off and all he has to do is follow through, let the NBA hang itself with its own rope (which it is doing in shockingly public fashion).

And why would the other owners vote against the Hansen sale? If they vote against the sale, it devalues their own teams and makes it harder to sell in the future. There's no real benefit for the other owners to go with the Sac deal, but it does present a ton of risk. Generally, billionaires don't become billionaires by taking deals with high risk and low reward.

If I owned a team, I would vote for the sale to Hansen because it's the best offer and makes my own team worth even more. More as in... my team might be valued at $400m now, but the Kings sale puts me up around $700m minimum. It's a no-brainer. And further, I would vote for the sale simply because it actually increases my leverage if I ever want a new arena, or if I want to sell my team.

To reject the Hansen offer would kill any chance for years that any outside party would put an honest bid on an NBA team. All outside parties would know the NBA doesn't negotiate in good faith and wouldn't waste their time. Look at how much the Hansen group has already spent, time and money. Why would any serious interest ever waste that kind of time and money in the future only to be used as a pawn in some arena deal? That's real bad for business. And you can bet the other owners see that, or at least their attorneys will when they prep them for the vote.

Further, this news makes it clear the NBA doesn't plan to block the sale at the BOG meeting.

They know they can't. They understand the significance of the American Needle case. The legal team put together by Hansen will be looking for the biggest antitrust settlement in the history of professional sports. Now just imagine what that case will look like when the Maloofs are named as co-plaintiffs. That's major bad news for the NBA.

And let's think about this from the Maloofs perspective for a second. They've been mocked, humiliated, jerked around, and slandered for years in Sacramento. They're reeling from some business failures, and suddenly a deal is put in front of them that would accomplish 3 things:1) It gives them the best offer ever in the history of the NBA for a team = business genius!!2) It gives them a ton of cash = fat pockets!!3) It allows them to flip the bird squarely at the NBA and Sacramento who have been jointly trying to screw them over for years = last laugh!!

seaNOmercy wrote:Why does Stern hate Seattle so much? What'd the Sonics ever do to him?

I think he's just got a gigantic hard-on for Sacramento tbh. He might dislike Seattle, but I don't think that's enough for him to go to such great lengths to block the sale. More about getting what HE wants than denying us what we want.

Some Seattle fan on twitter, @Dah_Knee. Mickey Arison followed this fan for some reason and then started sending him direct messages. I guess Dah_Knee tweeted Arison and said he would never go on a carnival cruise again (Arison owns carnival) so Arison followed him and then sent him the direct messages. Dah_Knee sent that screen capture to Softy and Softy posted it on his page.

What Arison is saying in the tweets is that the committee was only voting on a very specific, narrow question: Has Sac done everything to keep the Kings?The Seattle ownership and arena deal was never considered. That was not what they were voting on. Who was the individual that drew up the specific question without any consideration of the Seattle side? I wonder. This was just the committee to RECOMEND relo - not the actual relo committee. How will the actual committee's question be framed?

He's just trying to bully him, probably going after him for disclosing "confidential" information. And he's trying to cover his ass because Stern is going to rail on him for getting into it on twitter(he's been in trouble before). No NDA was signed of any kind, DAh KNee is not in any trouble

Dah_Knee has posted here many times. His avatar used to be DJack with that winter hat on. His wife/fiancee/girlfriend who is/was an officer for the South End Seahawkers I believe also posted here. That was until Lymon made fun of her pictures along with Pink's. Sonia is her name if I remember correctly.

While I appreciate his (da knee) efforts, you can tell the dude (owner) was getting irritated, and you can also tell he's the kind of person who 1 seattle fan could piss off and make him vote against the city. So good job! but, in the future cash out before you piss the guy off.

4/27/13 - I was there #humblethug"He looked like a bad man," Sherman said, "and I knew we were alright."

Lords of Scythia wrote:This explains why the relo comm could vote no without considering any part of the Sonics' side - THEY VOTED ON A NARROW, SPECIFIC QUESTION THAT DID NOT INCLUDE ANYTHNG ABOUT THE SONICS GROUP.

Lords of Scythia wrote:Why is all hell gonna break loose? Is Ballmer going nuclear? I've heard talk that the Maloofs could join the lawsuit and maybe even the NBA players association (that last one was on jammerhead KJR).

Them telling the Maloofs what to do in this situation is ground for antitrust, its about to go down

The recent vote was a reccommend. I don't know how the actual relocation vote is structured. There may not be a question. It might just be allow relo yea or nay. Stern might not be able to game the real vote. The relo reccoemend vote might be his only play, and he was hoping Hanson would drop out - that's what all that "bow out gracefully" crap is about, and "Hanson's best chances for a team in the future are to bow out" is a fg threat!

This is a wild ass guess but I believe Stern dislikes Key arena som much that he would go to any length to stop a team from playing there. If there was a viable NBA ready arena in Seattle, I don't believe Stern would be as much of a stickler. He doesn't like the Key. Even if it's temporary, he doesn't feel it's a NBA level arena. That's it one thing that Sacramento has over Seattle. They have a NBA arena to play in while a new arena is committed to and built.

hawkfan68 wrote:This is a wild ass guess but I believe Stern dislikes Key arena som much that he would go to any length to stop a team from playing there. If there was a viable NBA ready arena in Seattle, I don't believe Stern would be as much of a stickler. He doesn't like the Key. Even if it's temporary, he doesn't feel it's a NBA level arena. That's it one thing that Sacramento has over Seattle. They have a NBA arena to play in while a new arena is committed to and built.

well this is interesting...the Chris Hansen Should Raise The 12th Man Flag FB page just posted this screenshotstill trying to find the article it came from but i like the quote from one of KJs top aides "Right now the mood is good riddance"Edit: Just to be clear this is an OLD article from the last time they tried to move the kings but it is hilarious that KJs camp would speak of their beloved team like this

dunceface wrote:well this is interesting...the Chris Hansen Should Raise The 12th Man Flag FB page just posted this screenshotstill trying to find the article it came from but i like the quote from one of KJs top aides "Right now the mood is good riddance"Edit: Just to be clear this is an OLD article from the last time they tried to move the kings but it is hilarious that KJs camp would speak of their beloved team like this